Joleah Lamb: Protecting Coral Reefs

by Sheri Englund

August 22, 2014

Marine ecologist Joleah Lamb came to Cornell as a NatureNet fellow in 2014. Working with marine ecosystems expert Drew Harvell and leadership at The Nature Conservancy, she is studying oceans and waste, including natural methods for mitigating the spread of run-off pollution that causes infectious disease in coral reefs.

Lamb launched her research this summer in Indonesia and Washington’s San Juan Islands.

Lamb examined corals for signs of disease in the reefs around Indonesia’s Spermonde Islands, with the help of researchers from Hasanuddin University.

In August, Lamb joined new colleagues from Harvell’s lab at work tracking the ongoing sea star epidemic in Washington’s San Juan Islands. Harvell is holding a sick Pacific blood star, while PhD student Morgan Eisenlord takes measurements.